Starting is often the most difficult.

Many years ago, I began thinking about “doing” real estate. The reasons are myriad and varied and not written about here. It is not that they are a secret; they are likely common and easily guessed. But they are not covered in this missive moreso because each reason is itself a topic for a different conversation.

I am talking here about beginnings and so, before I could start a career in real estate, I had to figure out the steps to become an agent here in the State of Florida.

Then, when I was first licensed as a Florida Real Estate Associate, still in a stupor over passing the Florida Licensing Exam, the words, “now what…” raced through my head. The exam qualifies a person but nothing in the preparation for the exam gives even a hint of how to start in this huge industry. Another beginning was at hand.

And now, as I am starting this real estate blog, I wonder, “where do I begin,” and, “what should I write?”

Be True.

Brenda Ueland was a writer, journalist and author of a book entitled, “If You Want to Write. A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit.” In it she warns about writing from “grim resolution,” motivated by a materialism that she saw take hold of many in the twentieth century (she was born in the last decade of the 1800’s and lived until 1985). Soulless work that lacked creativity would not do.

Instead she strongly advocated working and writing from Truth:

“…you should work from now on until you die, with real love and imagination and intelligence, at your writing or whatever work it is that you care about.”

I can’t suppose what you, dear Reader, may want to know that could be contained on a page. I can only write and find those connections that resonate organically, naturally. It may at times seem like shouting into The Void, but I can not know unless I start.

And with Ueland’s thought as a guiding principle, the foundation of my South Florida Real Estate work is laid. Let it be strong enough to support that which is built atop its mortar.